Bforartists comes with a powerful bones system. And various animation features.

Tracking for you!

Bforartists offers Camera and Object Tracking.

Post Processing makes it shine!

Bforartists comes with a built in compositor.

Nodes Nodes Nodes!

Cycles offers a nodes based approach to create your shaders.

Scripting can do!

Extend the functionality by your own Python scripts.

What is Bforartists?

Bforartists is a complete 3D suite to create 3D content. It offers you the full 3D art pipeline to create game graphics, prerendered movies and stills. From modeling, sculpting, texturing, rigging, animation, rendering, up to post processing. Have a look at the features page to find out more.

Bforartists stands for Be For Artists. A reminder to develop for the user, not the programmer.

Bforartists is a fork of the popluar open source 3d software Blender. And, similar to Blender, of course also open source and under the GPL v2 or higher, better said in the sum under GPL v3 license. The primary goal of the Bforartists fork is to deliver a better graphical UI and a better usability. This means a complete switch in the useage philosophy. Away from the hotkey and speed centered useage. Towards a user friendly and intuitive graphical UI.

Note that Bforartists is fully functional. Every feature that works in Blender should also work in Bforartists.

Note also, we are always searching for volunteers to get the development going. Every help is welcome :)

The manual is now updated to reflect the changes in the newest Bforartists version 0.9.4. There are quite a few changes this time, the internal structure has changed. Some files gots modified, some added, and some removed.

Bforartists 0.9.3 is released. The windows binarires can now be found in the download section. I cannot say though when the Linux and Mac versions will follow.

The new version brings all the goodies from Blender 2.79. Like Denoiser, PBR Shader, Shadow Catcher, Flimic Color Management, etc. . Please have a look at the Blender 2.79 release note at the Blender page for the new features. Important is the compatibility note. Blender 2.79 is not fully backwards compatible to earlier version anymore. And this affects of course Bforartists 0.9.3 too.

Blender 2.79 is around the corner. So it was time to have a look that we provide not just zip files. The choice has fallen towards Advanced Installer as the installer Software solution. The developers were so kind to spend a free license for our open source project.

It can be that the translation is here and there a bit clumsy. We had to implement two custom strings, which are translated with Google Translate ...

We had some trouble with the automatic ssl certificate renewing for our https connection. It's just valid for three months. Then you have to renew the certificate manually or automatically. Which as told failed. As a result the usual browsers, like Firefox and Chrome, has thrown an fat warning that the page is not secure anymore. And so the page was not to reach anymore. Nobody clicks at the add exception button when ff or chrome says the page is evil.

In fact the page was and is as secure as ever. It's the browser manufacturers that is the problem here. They block secure https pages without a valid third hand ssl certificate, like page owners that run out of a certificate duration for one day would be mafia killers then. Guess who is the mafia here.